[…] September 1993. side one? Well, first, john, when and where were you born,John Shirley 0:37 I was born 23 722. right opposite Lime Grove Studios in Shepherds Bush. In those days, it was Brooklyn road, or the rather the goldhawk end of, of it was called Brooklyn road. And I very well rem[…]
[…]k : ...who was there, who was one of the great people in the union, a very good man. And he more-or-less unionised Shepherd's Bush.I mean there was a studio called Teddington, where if you were known to be a union member you didn't get a job!Kitty Wood : Well the following Christmas, in 1942, H. Bru[…]
[…]ved in a flat, I should think, or a hotel in Brighton, when he was manager of the cinema in Westfleet. Then I think he met someone who had Teddington Studios, and we moved up to Ferry Road in Teddington when I was roughly 4 years old, because I went to a school at the end of the road when I was 5. H[…]
[…]d supplied much better than the British Army. They had plenty of cigarettes and plenty of booze and all this sort of thing which they shared with the studio quite happily. And then we went through Italy. And I eventually finished the war in Austria in Vienna where our unit became part of a multi pol[…]
[…] I found that if I became an electrician I get one and six and three farthings an hour and so I moved over to Teddington to Henry Legion Norman studios. And they were doing a film called Stranglehold with Isabel Jeans, Alan James And that was my introduction to the electrical side.Yeah. What y[…]
